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I attended a festival of middle age last night. The queue stretched along the street and around the corner and up the block in the middle of Chinatown in Melbourne’s CBD. The people queuing were almost entirely my tribe: middle class, middle aged, of European descent, dressed in denim and leather, with colourful paisley and floral shirts, and a few quirky scarves and hats.…

Tori Amos played a wonderful concert at the Palais in St Kilda on Saturday night. I was thrilled to get my request of Wild Way! I said to Tori at the meet and greet that it moves me to tears it’s so beautiful.…

English musician Lloyd Cole played an excellent solo gig at the Theatre Royal in Castlemaine on Saturday night. He said he liked playing in the old building, and the acoustics were good, but his sound engineer had a problem with the acoustics of the foldback speakers and so they weren’t used.…

I enjoy watching music documentaries. At MIFF this year I’ve just seen Muscle Shoals, about the studio in Alabama where a lot of great US music was recorded in the 1960s. The doco is notable for the number of interviewees who worked and recorded there – unlike many in the genre that can’t get the major stars to participate and which rely instead on second rate contributors – this features all the main participants.…

In my two weeks in New York City I was fortunate to experience many cultural events.

Theatre

Our first event was Inflatable Frankenstein, experimental theatre from the group Radiohole. It was heavily technologically dependent, with live video projections of performer’s faces on the backs of their heads, brains being made from stage gloop and lots of other weirdness.…

I’ve been listening to several new albums by favourite artists in recent weeks. The Pet Shop Boys’ Elysium is fantastic. Bob Dylan’s Tempest is growing on me. Ian McCulloch’s Pro Patria Mori is an instant pleasure full of his characteristic melodies.…

American musician Johnette Napolitano performed an inspiring, warm, funny and moving show at the Spiegeltent on Saturday night. I first saw her fronting Concrete Blonde in 1990, then solo in 2009, and with guitarist James Mankey as Concrete Blonde again for the Bloodletting 20 year anniversary tour in 2010.…

This post will interest about three people but whatevs. In 1988 David Bowie rerecorded his 1979 song ‘Look back in anger’ with soon to be Tin Machine guitarist Reeves Gabrels and used the music for a dance performance he did with Canadian ensemble La La La Human Steps.…

One the of things that fascinates me about David Bowie is his practice of rerecording his own songs, often with very different arrangements. He’s done it throughout his career and seemingly for various reasons. Perhaps the most obvious reason is that he sometimes releases astonishing songs in relatively obscure or poorly promoted albums or soundtracks, which limits their potential audience.…

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